Rogue Frost!! This past Saturday night (during the last few hours of the summer season), we got a frost. Our sweet potatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers got nipped. Fortunately, our sweet potatoes were mulched nicely by all the weeds growing around and above them. Unfortunately, our zucchini was pretty much killed. They were beautiful; we had just started picking them, and we expected to have a bountiful early fall zucchini harvest. The only good thing about this is that we don't have to pick them anymore.

This week's share will consist of most, if not all of the following, as maybe a surprise or two. Beets, cabbage, dill, arugula, onions, lettuce, chard, tomatoes, and Sweet Potatoes!

This week’s share consists of carrots, yukina savoy, lettuce, tomatoes, dill, garlic, kale, zucchini, and watermelon. The bunched greens (top center in picture) is th yukina savoy – an exciting new green from Japan. They are good both raw in salads /sandwiches, and also lightly stir fried with whatever is in the pan. We are thrilled to still have lots of tomatoes on the vine. We expect to have a good amount of them right through the end of October. With these cool nights, they are taking longer to fully ripen. Tomatoes only reach their full flavor potential when they ripen at temperatures above 60 degrees. So you will get lots of partially ripe tomatoes in your share. They prefer to mature in your home, not in our field. Just keep them on the counter (never the refrigerator). Many of our tomatoes have blocky shoulders with a recessed stem/core. An apple corer can be useful.

These "volunteer" cucumber seedlings have sprouted up by the 1000's in our old cucumber patch- which is shown to the left of the watermelons in the picture below.